Freight ~ Fright

freight ~ fright:

[slightly different vowel sound: the letter ‘ei’ after ‘f’ in ‘freight’ rhyme with the letters ‘ay’ in “pay“, and the letters ‘fri’ in ‘fright’ rhyme with “fry”; and the letters ‘gh’ in both these words are silent]

freight & freight carriers (goods & carriers)

“Freight” (with an ‘e’ — for the right pronunciation, please click here) is, as a noun, ‘the goods (things) transported by ships, aeroplanes, trains, etc. and the money paid for transporting goods, and also the process of transporting goods’ and as a verb, it means ‘to transport some goods by some means of transport, like by truck, train, ship, aircraft’, and also as verb and usually in the phrase ‘to be freighted with’ to mean ‘be laden or burdened with’,

e.g.

It is quicker to send goods by air freight.

My office prefers our material to be freighted by train.

She was so furious when she talked that each of her words was freighted with spite.

As ‘freight’ is an uncountable noun, it is never used in the plural form: “… to send good by freights” or “He paid paid large sums for freights.” However, as a verb with the third person, ‘freight’ is often found with S in present tense, as in “He always freights his goods by road; not by air.

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in fright…

“Fright” (without an ‘e’ — for the right pronunciation, please click here) is ‘the feeling of sudden fear; person or thing that looks ugly and ridiculous’,

e.g.

When she saw the bull dashing at her, the girl trembled with fright.

He gave her quite a fright when he burst into her room suddenly, with a horrifying mask on his face.